And thanks for that recap! Seriously, it was a good article.

I feel your pain! However, it has been officially announced that this one and "Face Off" have been renewed by SyFy already.

I'm with you on visiting Lake Tawakoni to see the spiders. My only concern is that it may not be an annual phenomenon. Most of the information I've found goes back to the biggest and seemingly unprecedented events of 2007. Since I'll literally be driving by the park in April, I plan on stopping to check. Seems they…

Thanks! That makes sense. It's also more ironic to get eaten by a former comrade I guess.

You are correct about the end of ther human race in Childhood's End, essentially we take the next step in evolution. The Overlords are actually sad in that they are incapable of doing this themselves, but have assumed the role of midwives for other races transcendence.

Huummm, I'm wondering why the bat/orcs have lettering on them? If you check out the video at 0:54 above one of them has "V.S. S.F." on it in black. Do bat/orcs get tatoos? Or does someone like their creator mark them for some other purpose, like to tell them apart?

Very good point, HAL killed everyone on Discovery except for Dave Bowman (and he tried hard to do him in as well). Most of them were killed while they were in hibernation.

Hey, the gaseous sex monster was one of my favorite episodes . . .

Giant slow moving clumsy bunnies too . . .

I though Aiden killing off the kid was bold, and probably the right thing to have done. The clip above shows my favorite part of that scene at 1:16 in. It looks like Aidan has bloody residue under his fingernails, and is crying. Reminds us that even though vampires are killers by nature, they can and do feel…

Good tip, trying to promote this comment by replying.

There have been some bio-mechanical studies of whether humanoid winged flight might be possible or not. Some of this speculation was centered around the concept of angels of course. In short, to get something human to fly under it's own power in normal gravity would require some very significant changes to the basic…

What I find fascinating about Bob Ross personally is that he is a white dude that makes a big old 'fro look good on him after 1980.

Well, it seems I have to correct myself on the LeGuin title I recommended. It is in fact the The Left Hand of Darkness wherein is the human subspecies has neither sex until it is time to breed, then they can become either.

The Russian Trilogy by CJ Cherryh is awesome! I thought it was an excellent idea at the time it was published in that it used an mostly unfamiliar to folklore and mythology (well unfamiliar to most westerners). Definitely a cautionary tale of being careful of what you wish for! She's probably my favorite author.

I know! New stories by Beagle is awesome news. I think he's one of my favorite fantasy authors.

There are a couple of things that come to mind regarding those without gender. On the SF Front there is Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossed, where her human subspecies has neither sex until it is time to breed, then they can become either, then revert to genderless beings after their "heat."

Having vibrissae (whiskers) would be pretty cool. They are very touch sensitive, and even have a special blood sinus at their base that increases the tactile sensation. Some animals can even use them to detect air movements.

There is the amazing Clarkesworld Magazine

Cool, I must have missed that. Interesting as to why he's back, maybe it has something to do with a return of this TARDIS-like machine that got away at the end of "The Lodger"?